I was delighted to learn the other day that in the Cornish dialect of Southwest England, an icicle can be called a conquer bell.
Oh, how lovely. I think all the poets immediately need to add that to their list of words to use in future poems.
So figure out what rhymes with Conker Bell and email us words@waywordradio.org.
Nancy Gabriel from Ithaca, New York, recalls her father’s no-nonsense responses to minor injuries when she was a child: After making sure she was really all right, he’d say, It’s far enough from your heart; it won’t kill you. Other times he might...
Andres from Washington Heights, New York, heard a radio report suggesting that the same anatomy that lets humans speak also makes us vulnerable to choking, and he wanted to know more. The answer lies in the physical trade-off that sets humans apart...
